crooked-v

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by crooked-v 5d ago
Adjust them to the past X0 years of inflation from whenever the limits were last set, and peg them to inflation from then out.
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by crooked-v 5d ago
So how do you make that CLI tool work in the context of a web client?
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by crooked-v 8d ago
> they interact with some external divine voice that drives their actions ...in a specific region, in a specific time period, immediately before the economic and then societal crash of the eastern Mediterranean that changed culture in th
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by crooked-v 8d ago
Sure, but there would have still been the same poor record keeping around birth dates and the same incentives for people in a poor area 60 years ago to enter the workforce early.
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by crooked-v 10d ago
Unfortunately, the US is filled with people who are happy to make their own lives worse if it hurts people they don't like even more.
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by crooked-v 12d ago
Of course, if you get a Quest you're also paying with the sheer amount of personal data shipped off to Meta the entire time you're using it.
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by crooked-v 12d ago
The motion sickness in particular is something that's been mostly solved by using non-stick locomotion, like Gorilla Tag ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/1533390/Gorilla_Tag/ ). Both the 'big name
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by crooked-v 12d ago
The streaming is good enough now, especially with foveated rendering, that there's no reason for them to eat the extra support cost and user experience drag of focusing on a tether.
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by crooked-v 13d ago
General-purpose layout engines are Turing complete.
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by crooked-v 13d ago
You're expecting consumers to be able to compare these anti-features that are actively hidden from them. It's like airline seats - airlines get away with continually shrinking them because consumers have no way to actually compare
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by crooked-v 14d ago
The game description on Steam even explicitly mentions "SCP Foundation", which the creator also doesn't have the rights to use unless the whole game is Creative Commons-licensed.
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by crooked-v 14d ago
Unless, of course, the terms of service require mandatory binding arbitration and bar you from the recourse of the legal system entirely.
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by crooked-v 15d ago
I've seen some people complain about the work of dealign.ai and similar groups, but personally, I fully support it. If LLMs have a lasting effect on society, I'd prefer to see some options that don't have generic corpo-speak
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by crooked-v 15d ago
The "what is" section didn't exist when they commented.
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by crooked-v 16d ago
I would wait until there's a display model at an Apple Store, then give it a week while it goes through approximately a bajillion fold/unfold cycles, then see what the crease looks like.
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by crooked-v 17d ago
It's to be distinctive in public from the square foldables. That's it. That's the reason.
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by crooked-v 17d ago
So where's the add-on that adds a thumbstick and some buttons so I can play DS games on it?
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by crooked-v 17d ago
The simple ctrl+C ctrl+V, for example.
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by crooked-v 18d ago
It reminds me of the people who reinvent some basic concept of physics with an LLM (usually, but not always, incorrectly) and think it's 'revolutionary'.
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by crooked-v 18d ago
Also see the 80-year-old woman in SF who killed an entire family at a bus stop, while speeding, while going the wrong way on a one way street, and was sentenced to probation and community service and banned from driving for three years.
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by crooked-v 20d ago
Of course, them doing it like that makes the security theater even more obvious, since they don't bother doing anything about it until renewal time.
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by crooked-v 20d ago
I think of the legal system in the US. It's easy to find statements about how the entire legal system would collapse if people stopped taking plea bargains because nothing is actually funded or operated in a way that actually guarantee
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by crooked-v 23d ago
> come up with a new company idea, Run that company So far nobody's even shown an LLM succesfully running a high-traffic vending machine for as much as 30 days at a time.
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by crooked-v 26d ago
Yep, any concern about text widows and orphans in modern app layouts becomes irrelevant as soon as you have to localize. Just build your layout so it can squash/stretch appropriately.
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by crooked-v 27d ago
I've got a bunch of BILLY bookcases that have survived several moves and are conveniently easy to mod with basic power tools. Sadly, I don't know if it's worth trying to keep them at this point, because they replaced the prev
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by crooked-v 27d ago
The same paper specifically notes that the increase of units affordable to very low income levels depends on there being any significant number of units affordable to very low income levels in the first place, and that's something that
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by crooked-v 27d ago
> The last place I worked created a team of principles whose whole goal was to create a system to turn jira tickets into PRs Demotivating work aside, that also seems like a complete dead-end to me, because somebody else who focused their
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by crooked-v 27d ago
Housing shortages are a result of local policies, and rent control makes housing shortages worse ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105113772... ).
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by crooked-v 27d ago
SF as a city has the fundamental problem that there's a huge part of the electorate will blame the housing shortage on absolutely anything they can find that's not the actual fundamental physical shortage of housing. That leads to
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by crooked-v 1mo ago
It doesn't.

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